THE ENEMY IS WITHIN YOU: THE MIND

The people of Israel had become unclean inside and out. Their flesh had “putrefied” in a spiritual sense, “From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment” (Isa 1:6). The people were lepers in the eyes of God. Their flesh was rotting, not in reality, but symbolically.

In modern times, people have rotted from head to toe. Like the dead man Lazarus that Jesus resurrected, the people of Judah and Jerusalem stank. People nowadays stink as well because mankind is still decaying. Glorious Adam-kind, because of sin, had rotted by the time of Isaiah and they continue to rot. Their decay was not biological but spiritual. The body, just a vessel for their souls, was cracked and the righteous Spirit had seeped out just as any fluid might do. That is just a “shadow” of what it has become today!

So many people now identify what they are not. Men couple with men as if they are women, and women couple with women as if they are men. Same-sex marriage is now legal here and many places around the globe. Mankind has decayed since God reproduced man in the Image of Himself; now so many are nothing more than images of the Wicked One.

Mankind is so decadent and rotten that they are not even men and women any longer. They imagine themselves transexuals, homosexuals, gender fluidic, gender neutral, and all sorts of LBGT+.

In this age, mankind is putrefied from toe to head as well; even more so, because the rot comes all the way from the mind.

Like the people of Isaiah’s Judah, “the whole head is sick” (Isa 1:5). The oncology of their decadence was their minds, and the “cancers” were revealed in their fleshes. They did anything they could imagine, and still do, and as such their fleshes became cancerous, morally speaking. The people then were consumed with their imagination and their vessels became as decadent as their imaginations.

Our genesis was from the Image of God, but now it is whatever the minds of sinners can imagine. Adam was a made a ‘Shadow” of God, but now his kind are the enlightened ones of Lucifer.

Now is as in the days of Noah when, “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen 6:5). It was very much the same in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. It is very much the same in the days of Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

From the creation of the world, people have degenerated; Paul wrote to the Romans, “(they) became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Rom 1:21).

What is vain about imagining things. Imaginations are lusts. People get pleasure, like Pavlov’s dog, not necessarily by real things, but whatever it is that they imagine.

Fornication, for instance, is literally “porno” (pornea in the Greek.) Porno is like the bell ringing in the ears of Pavlov’s dog; it solicits juices even when no meat is forthcoming. Fornication is one example of vain imaginations; imagining that you are whatever your mind tells you is the ultimate vanity.  

Isaiah was so right saying that they “were sick in the head.” The minds of mankind have been dying since the beginning of time, and all the while, people think they are the most wise and intelligent generation ever.

This generation are “sheep.” We see it very often.

In a banana republic in the movie, “Bananas,” the new dictator demanded that people were to wear their underwear over their outerwear, and they did just that!

During the pandemic, the mandator said to wear masks and without question people even used socks as masks. Then they mandated that you wear two masks, and voila, many wore two masks! Next, they mandated that you take a vaccine that was not a vaccine and the “sheep” stood in line to get their imaginary vaccinations.

Extremists do that to control naïve people. The young people, mostly women, have the malady of Eve. Some wicked people say, “Jews are for genocide of the Palestinians,” and despite the opposite — the truth — they chant in unison whatever slogan they are told to chant.

People have become “sheep” from head to toe. However, they are not sheep, but young wolves in sheep’s clothing, meaning that they are shepherded by the wolves as gullible sheep would be.

Wherever Isaiah looked, God showed him decadence. Wherever we look, there is decadence.

To aid in their vain imaginations, drugs are taken to control the mind. While the “sheep” think they are enlightened, darkness prevails. Drugs, including marijuana and alcohol, induce vain imaginations, allowing people to believe what they are not. You are unsafe unless God is in charge of your minds, but all the while drug-induced ‘sheep” follow the “wolves” to their deaths.

Many are dying from drugs and such, and the world merely watches them die. They are dying in pursuit of vain imaginations, to wit: “And the lusts of their father, the Devil, they will do” (John 8:44).

The “sickness” is not really of the flesh but of the head, just as Isiaah informed the decadent Jews. The sickness — issues of the blood… genetic sin — is in the head. People instinctively, like the beasts, do whatever they want to do.

All Satan does is display flesh and people lust. Then lust — vain imaginations — lead to outright sin: James wrote, “When lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death” (Jas 1:15). That was what Isaiah was thinking when God told him that the Jews had a “sickness in the head.” He was speaking of lust.

Every effect has a cause. The effect is death, and the cause is lust. We are like beasts, even the tame dog. Men “salivate” from their most unholy flesh, even if it is circumcised. It was never the flesh that was the root cause, but the mind. People must exercise self-control to prevent being controlled. As the ‘Prince of the Power of the Air,” Satan controls us through our minds. He never tosses us a bone to chew on, but only imaginary encounters with fresh meat. We may get a hag all the while a beautiful siren is in the mind! (Lust can be warded off by ignoring the outward beauty to look at the “beasts” within.)

Our fleshes are still rotting despite the words of Isaiah. It is because our minds are decadent. To save our souls, our minds must be protected.

Abraham’s name means “Shield.” His seed were to have shielded minds, but Abraham’s genetics as a “shield” was not efficacious; a better new improved shield was required.

The blood of Jesus was the genetic shield and God provided Calvary — “The Cranium” — to shield our minds. Calvary was the last “shield” that God would provide. None of the other Covenants would do; the Covenant of Grace finished the work of God to keep us safe from the thoughts of our minds.

Our minds are our enemies, but they can be our friends. It is basically with whom we keep company.

Right now, I am thinking the Thoughts of God. The Word is my shield! It is me, “taking the shield of faith, wherewith you (I) shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked” (Ephes 6:16).

Try it; it works. Use faith. The study of scripture — the Word — strengthens faith, and once faith is increased, the mind is safe from thoughts of pleasure… and content with the promise of better things.

Many have wondered how Satan got into the Garden. Maybe he wasn’t right there in the Garden but outside the entryway (Gen 3:24). As “Prince of the Power of the Air,” his words may have gotten into the mind of Eve through her thoughts. Then Eve relayed her thoughts to Adam in words and his mind wandered.

No wonder Cain ended up in the “Land of Nod” — a non-existent imaginary place that he wandered to.

Eve needed not to touch the Tree nor the Knowledge from it (Gen 3:3). The so-called Serpent just emanated its thoughts to Eve from some distance outside the Garden. That remains the M.O. of Satan to this day! The Serpent got into her flesh through her mind.